Improvement in clothes-sticks



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SIIJAS E. BAUDER, OF BIRMINGHAM, OHIO.

\ IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-STICKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 213,377, dated March13, 1879; application filed November 2, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SILAS E. BAUDER, of Birmingham, in the county ofErie and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inClothes Sticks; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

The figure of the drawing is a representation of a perspective of myclothes-stick.

My invention relates to a device for lifting laundry-clothes and thelike from a boiler of hot water, and it is adapted to prevent the hotWater from running down the stick when the point is elevated andscalding the hands of the operator.

The invention consists in a handle, to which cross-pieces of differentlengths are secured by mortise and tenon or bolts, or equivalent device,such cross-pieces being also secured to a grooved stick, having aprojecting vend nearly or quite on a plane with the plane of the handle.

The water runs down the stick and passes off at the heel thereof withoutapproaching the handle.

Referring to the drawing, A represents the handle, and B the stick,having groove b. 0 represents the heel cross-bar, of longer dimensionsthan the cross bar 0. The handle and stick are properly secured togetherby these cross-bars, and their unequal length brings the point 11 of thestick B nearly or quite in a plane with the longitudinal plane of thehaudle.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The clothes-stick described, consisting of the handle A, stick B, havinggroove 1) and point 11, and cross-bars G O, of unequal length,constructed, arranged, and operating as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have V hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

SILAS E. BAUDER.

W'itnesses E. N. TAFT, H. J. WARNER.

